{"id":2900,"date":"2023-04-20T19:58:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T19:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=2900"},"modified":"2023-04-20T19:58:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T19:58:08","slug":"mysterious-cryptic-molecules-made-by-zombie-cells-may-drive-aging-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=2900","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious \u2018Cryptic\u2019 Molecules Made by Zombie Cells May Drive Aging, Scientists Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-184-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-2901\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-184-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-184-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-184-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-184-770x433.png 770w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-184-293x165.png 293w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-184-390x219.png 390w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-184.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Within cells, DNA (green) is wound tightly around proteins called histones (blue). In &#8220;zombie cells,&#8221; chemical modifications to histones allow certain gene fragments to be expressed when they usually wouldn&#8217;t be.\u00a0(Image credit: Sci-Monde via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Zombie cells&#8221; that lurk in the body and contribute to age-related diseases make small, strange molecules not seen in normal cells. The exact function of these &#8220;cryptic&#8221; molecules remains a mystery, but now, scientists think they may know why zombies build them in the first place,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/news-opinion\/cryptic-transcription-how-aging-cells-express-fragments-of-genes-71056\" target=\"_blank\"><u>The Scientist reported<\/u><\/a>(opens in new tab).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/mysterious-cryptic-molecules-made-by-zombie-cells-may-drive-aging-scientists-say\">https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/mysterious-cryptic-molecules-made-by-zombie-cells-may-drive-aging-scientists-say<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within cells, DNA (green) is wound tightly around proteins called histones (blue). In &#8220;zombie cells,&#8221; chemical modifications to histones allow certain gene fragments to be expressed when they usually wouldn&#8217;t be.\u00a0(Image credit: Sci-Monde via Getty Images) &#8220;Zombie cells&#8221; that lurk in the body and contribute to age-related diseases make small, strange molecules not seen in normal cells. The exact function of these &#8220;cryptic&#8221; molecules remains a mystery, but now, scientists think they may know why zombies build them in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-aging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2902,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions\/2902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}